Feeding device



J. GIESY.'

FEEDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED IuNE27, 1919.

1,361,045, Patend Dee. 7,1920.

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FEEDING DEVICE.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented D00, 7, 1920.'

s application mea June 27, 1919. serial No. 307,214.

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Be it known that I, J oi-IN Grnsv, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Tacoma, in the county of Pierce and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in FeedingDevices; `and I do hereby declarethe following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the ine vention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which-,it appertains to make and use the same. i

This invention relates to chick feeding devices, and especially to a device for automatically supplying a quantity of iiuid substance or material as it is consumed by chickens or other stock which may be feeding from the device.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a simple, practicable, substantial, durable, readily adjustable and inexpensive device from which may be exhausted fluid substances such as, for instance, water, milk, and clabber.

Another object of the invention is to provide an article, the several parts of which are easily renewable and interchangeable, and which can be readily cleansed, so that the device can be kept in a thoroughly sanitary condition. I

With the above and other objects in view, as will be readily manifest to those versed in the art, the invention consists of the construction, the combination, and in details and arrangement of the parts as more particularly described in the following speci cation relative to the embodiment of the invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device showing a jar in adjusted position, the guard ring being in position to be lowered onto the top of the container.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view of the rear end of the spring clamp.

Fig. 3 is a vertical central lsection through the completely assembled feeder.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the container with the guard ring removed and the `j ar in cross section.

Among the-purposes of this invention one is to provide a liquid feeding device which will maintain constantly a suitable supply of liquid feed, and further, I provide a device with which an ordinary Mason jar or similarl sized vessel can be used, so that I am ena led to manufacture and tsell kthe holders and the purchasers can utilize jars that they already have in their possession, although, of course, the jars, or a suitable jar, can be sold with the container.

Therefore I have shown an ordinary form ofMason jar J as inverted in Figs. l Vand 3 andclamped by theresilient action of. a pair of semicircular or arcuate spring arms 2--2 which extend in crossed relation from a back bar or connector 3, clearly shown inFigs.

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'Ihe connector is provided at its ends with a pair of U-shaped bows 4 4, the parallel arms of each of which are spaced suiliciently to encompass the rim of a suitable vessel or container in the form of a metalliccylinder 5, the cross bar of the coupler 3 being curved to conform to the curve of the cylinder, while the ends (5-6 of the arms 2-2 are designed to extend for a suitable distance around the inside surface of the container 5 when the coupler is mounted on the edge thereof, as clearly shown in Figs. l and 3.

The swinging or other ends of the clamping1 arms 2 2 are shown as provided with suitable rests or bowed portions 7--7 designed to overlap the rim of the container 5, so that when the jar J is introduced between the opposed jaws or arms 2-2 and the latter are released from the dotted position in Fig. 4 the jar is embraced in a substantial manner land supported by the holder or clamping device, which latter is supported at two diametrically opposite portions of the rim of the container 5.

In this manner the jar can be held in a suitable position above the bottom of the container 5 so that the liquid from the inverted jar J will, under gravitation, automatically replace the quantity contained in the bottom of the vessel 5 as it is withdrawn by chicks or other stock having access to the interior of the container 5 through means of suitable apertures or openings 10, a number of which are formed at a suitable height and at suitable locations around the wall of the cylinder or container 5.

To prevent access to the interior ofthe container other than through the apertures or openings 10 I prefer to provide a guard ring or cover-like annulus 11 having acentral aperture 12' of a diameter sufficient to receive the jar J and having at its perimeter a downturned flange 13 covering the rim of the container 5.

In the use of the device, the parts of the feeder being properly assembled, the jar J ter 1s in an upright position, and then, by

quickly inverting the jar with the container. to the position showninFig. 3, the liquid'- will gx'avitate downwardly and rise in the container to a height determined b' the ele-` vation of the mouth of the jar J. he guard ring 1I can -tlen beset in'place' by being passed down over the upwardly extending end of thejar Ji' Y. v

Having thus described my invention, what Icla-imris': l Y

'1. In a feeder' having a receptacle with openings, a clamping device of spring wire comprising: two crossedV arcuate arms,va back bar connecting saidY arms. said' back bar hav! ing an inverted Ushaped bar at each side adapted to engage the side of the receptacle; 2 A chick feeder having a receptacle with openings in its side wallpa spring clamp consistingvof a piece of wire having a con- Y necting part toint'erlock with the rim of f the receptacle, and aV pair of crossed arcuate arms with saddle ends to rest upon the rim of the receptacle, and a jar adjustably heldv by the frictional engagement of said arms at any desired elevation above the vbottom of the receptacle.

3. A chick feeder having a receptacle withV o eninus'lnits-side wall' a clam consistin b 7 g of a piece: ofv wire-having a connecting part to interlock with the rm'oftlie receptacle und having' u pair oil" bowed armsv with saddle ends to rest upon the rim ofthe receptacle, Y

JOHN GIESY. 

